European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday May 16. 1967 the stars and stripes Page 5 woman in Iron lung earns honorary College degree Dieuw Oder tins in u Iron Long. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 164 1947 Charles Lucky Luciano one time lice King of America twice forced to return to Italy his native land was Given full Freedom by Sicil Ian police with the warning to behave yourself. 30 years ago today. May 16. 1957 the air Force completed the longest fastest flight by a single to the Jet. The three f100c super Sabret Lew from i ,.oun to los Angeles in 14 Hourt and live minutes meanwhile Britain exploded a Hydrogen bomb High ver the Central Pacific thus joining the United slate and soviet Union As a Hydrogen bomb Power. 20 years ago today. May 16, 1967 the supreme omit extended to juveniles substantially the same cons ii it ional Prelec tons Given adults in criminal trials. Joye ors ago today. May 16, 1977 gov. Reubin Askew has signed a Taw making Florida the third stale in the nation to legalize the drug laetrile billed by some physicians As a Hope not a cure for cancer. Jackson Tenn api Dianne o Dell is proud of her new College certificate but there s still one dream she knows May never come True. I would love to hug someone said o Deli who has spent 37 years in a 750-Pound Iron lung. Because of her efforts to attend College and counsel other handicapped people she was awarded an Honor Ary degree last weekend from Fred Hardeman College in Henderson. She attended the Small private school s commence ment and was wheeled on stage to address the graduating class her body encased in the 6-foot-Long Metal Respirator. Only her head protrudes. There is a line from a John Denver song some Days Are diamonds some Days Are stones thank you for giving me this Diamond Day she said. O Deli 40, studied social work at forced Hardeman for a year but was forced to quit because of her lived with a family near the school and relied on tape recordings of lectures for Classwork. Coming to forced Haraman was like Dorothy opening her Kansas farmhouse door and stepping into the land of of said o Dell who was struck by polio when she was 3 years old. Using a plastic tube attached to the Iron lung she can operate a television lamp phonograph and Tele phone and she plans to write a children s Book on her voice activated computer. Pal needs $25 million says Falwell Lynchburg a. A the Rev. Jerry Falwell says the pal ministries need to raise $20 million to $25 million within 90 Days and to reduce expenses by $ i million a month to survive. It sounds absolutely impossible. 1 want to Tell you something we have no we do that or we shut Down Falwel said during a 10-Minuleappearance on thursday s pal show. Since july 1986, pal has lost Money every month except december when it broke even Falwell said during services wednesday at his Thomas Road Baptist Church. He said the losses have ranged from is million to s4 million a month. Falwel took Over the ministries in March from evangelist Jim Bailer who admitted to a 1980 sexual encounter with a Church Secretary. Batker has since been defrocked by the assemblies of cod Church. Budget cuts will come in operations no personnel Falwell said. The pal ministries already have Laid off More than 200 of heir 1,480 employees. Falwell said Lwe presently owe our television stations Over 18 million and Between now and May 31we must make significant payment or this program will cease to be on the air. We have mortgage payments that Are seriously overdue. We have delinquent accounts in excess of $2 million some in which payments have not been made in Over one year Falwel said. 5 Cool workers in Pennsylvania win $21.4 million lottery Jackpot Harrisburg a. A five Coal company workers who chipped in $2 each for a shot at riches bit a Jackpot Worth 121.4 million and they said thursday they Don t expect their lives Ever to be the same. The men weren t sure what they would do with All the Money 1163,788 a year each for 26 years before Federal taxes but 60-year-old Peter Zeyak of Hazle ton said a party for 75 others at Jeddo Highland Chalco. Was planned. The super 7 Jackpot was the largest Ever paid in Pennsylvania on a single ticket the live men who work in the same area Al Jeddo Highland in Harleigh had been buying $10 to $25worth of tickets each week. Yevak a truck Driver said his wife was playing Bingo wednesday night when the caller announced the winning super 7 numbers. I was sleeping Yevak said. She woke me up. I said it can t be. I s impossible i said let me sleep " instead they checked with Robert Smith 48, of West Hazleton who had bought the tickets. Smith was awake All night checking and rechecking the ticket Al different places. Also receiving a total of 14.3 million Are Daniel Budziak 35, of Drums Joseph d. Wargo 37, of Mca Doo and Bernard e. A Watsley s1, of Freeland. The five said at a news conference they were quit Ting their jobs. Tennessee gets maternity leave Law Nashville Tenn. A gov. Ned Mcwherter snacked on ice Cream and pickles thursday after sign ing a bilt that made Tennessee the 12lh stale to enact maternity leave Law. The Law requires business owners with More than 100 people on the payroll to give a full time pregnant worker a four month unpaid leave if the employee has been on the Job for at least a year and asks for it a least three months in Advance. Its very very pro family. And reasonable As far As Industry is concerned Mcwherter said. It s in the interest of mothers in Tennessee and those women in our slate that will be mothers in the Mcwherter whose 75-year-old Mother died april 28, said signing the legislation was especially timely for him because i still have some thoughts about mothers thai Are very dear to he said an estimated 50 percent of the working women in Tennessee will be affected by the Law when it goes into effect Jan. 1, the governor shrugged off complaints by the ten Nessee business round table a statewide Sobby which said mandates will keep out new Industry. "1 would invite those that Are critical to just think about their own wives and Iligir own mothers and their own children. And then respond he said. I think it sends a signal that Tennessee will be a belter place to live and Well have a belter Quality of life. Everything does t relate to just a Survey last summer of Small businesses in Tennes see showed that 84 percent opposed legislation according to the National federation of Independent business. The Survey indicated that the no. 1 problem of Small business owners in Tennessee was the Cost of health insurance. Mandating other benefits will Only exacerbate this problem and threaten the future of employee Benefit plans said Nib spokeswoman Martha Gentry. He also said the ministry owes its building contractor. Roc Messner of Wichita kan., millions of dollars and construction on the Lowers and other facilities cannot a the pal Complex in fort Mill s.c., construction work ers on wednesday halted or slowed work on unfinished projects. We had no warning it chief financial officer Jerry Falwell Nims told he Charlotte . Observer after work ers boarded up the unfinished $27 million heritage grand towers at heritage Usa. The newspaper also said an undetermined num Ber of construct Ion workers were temporarily Laid offal the Complex and fewer than a dozen workers were found on three major Job Sites wednesday afternoon. Al Messner s office in Wichita staff members said Mossner would not comment. However in fort Mill Bill Peters general superintendent for the hotel project said we re no quitting. We re too far along to. stage struck a photo seven year old Mindy Bray realizes she stepped on stage a bit too soon during a school violin concert in Slidell is. The lire year student playing in her biggest recital did t know the song
